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| Marj |
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Wow! Looks like the forums have either picked a bit or I've just been away too long.
Unohoo - You've been away too long!
Mitty - Isn't it so much better? And since I've been using it for a while, I won't ever go back. |
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| whiskeypriest |
| Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 7:24 am |
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bparton454 wrote: Thanks very much for the warm welcome, Marj. I'm sure I'll enjoy myself over here - I'm a film fan, too. I had trouble keeping up with the film forums and the book forums in their heyday, but I managed to do it for awhile. Then I took a 2-year forum sabbatical and now... now....(breaks down and cries)
whiskey -
Did you notice the introductory paragraph on the Book of the Month voting forum??? Think that's directed at us??? Never vote for a book again unless you plan to BOTH read it and discuss it. |
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| whiskeypriest |
| Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 7:26 am |
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By the way... Ivan? |
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| mitty |
| Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 12:41 pm |
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whiskeypriest wrote: bparton454 wrote: Thanks very much for the warm welcome, Marj. I'm sure I'll enjoy myself over here - I'm a film fan, too. I had trouble keeping up with the film forums and the book forums in their heyday, but I managed to do it for awhile. Then I took a 2-year forum sabbatical and now... now....(breaks down and cries)
whiskey -
Did you notice the introductory paragraph on the Book of the Month voting forum??? Think that's directed at us??? Never vote for a book again unless you plan to BOTH read it and discuss it. Oh, clearly one last parting shot from msussman to me. And a justified one, as the Pnin discussion here clearly evinces.
If I may interject - whiskey, maybe so, but sometimes things get away from us, intentions and all that. 
As far as I am concerned, msussman has no room to talk about non-participation. Glass houses and all that. |
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| pedersencr |
| Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 2:46 pm |
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unohoo wrote: But seriously, has anyone read this book? I think I might try it again when I've consumed a couple of books.
unohoo,
That motorcycle roared right by me and made no impression whatever. And that was back in the day. I think you'll need to consume something else before you try it again. |
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| bparton454 |
| Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 3:49 pm |
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Haven't had much to talk about in terms of books, my reading these days in near non-existent. My most recent attempt at reading was Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. I must say, I had somewhat of an irrational hatred of the book and the people who purchased it when I used to cashier at a bookstore. For some reason I just knew the weirdos who bought the book were just sitting around, talking in existential circles while they smoked weed and drank box wine. (don't ask me why)
How funny!!! I actually WAS an existentialist, pot-smoking couch potato (I plead INNOCENT to the boxed wine charge), and in a way, I still AM, but I had a similar irrational hatred for anyone who bought that book. Bizarre.
ped - Hiya
whiskey -
Yes, that's Ivan. Very earnest-looking, don't you think? |
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| Marj |
| Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 3:55 pm |
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I think he's adorable!
bparton - If you click the "quote" button at the top of a post you want to quote, it will show up in your posting box along with the poster's name. |
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| carrobin |
| Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 4:38 pm |
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| "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" is somewhere in my collection of books I'm going to read someday (I've got a million of 'em). But "Zen and the Art of Archery" was cool. And much shorter. |
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| whiskeypriest |
| Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 8:12 am |
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bparton454 wrote: Haven't had much to talk about in terms of books, my reading these days in near non-existent. My most recent attempt at reading was Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. I must say, I had somewhat of an irrational hatred of the book and the people who purchased it when I used to cashier at a bookstore. For some reason I just knew the weirdos who bought the book were just sitting around, talking in existential circles while they smoked weed and drank box wine. (don't ask me why)
How funny!!! I actually WAS an existentialist, pot-smoking couch potato (I plead INNOCENT to the boxed wine charge), and in a way, I still AM, but I had a similar irrational hatred for anyone who bought that book. Bizarre.
ped - Hiya
whiskey -
Yes, that's Ivan. Very earnest-looking, don't you think?
carrobin -
Trust me: you can get through life quite well without it. Before you read Zen, I'd recommend a thorough review of the nutritional information for every product in the local Piggly Wiggly. |
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| tirebiter |
| Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 2:46 pm |
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Re. Z&TAOMM, I've read it twice, once at the age of 19 and once at 40. Loved it both times, cried at the end both times. (For some men, it's Field of Dreams that gets them choked up; for me, it's Zen.)
My daughter read it and became a philosophy major in college.
So some people like it. |
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| whiskeypriest |
| Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 2:49 pm |
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tirebiter wrote: Re. Z&TAOMM, I've read it twice, once at the age of 19 and once at 40. Loved it both times, cried at the end both times. (For some men, it's Field of Dreams that gets them choked up; for me, it's Zen.)
My daughter read it and became a philosophy major in college.
So some people like it. |
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| unohoo |
| Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 6:57 pm |
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tirebiter wrote: Re. Z&TAOMM, I've read it twice, once at the age of 19 and once at 40. Loved it both times, cried at the end both times. (For some men, it's Field of Dreams that gets them choked up; for me, it's Zen.)
My daughter read it and became a philosophy major in college.
So some people like it.
So what was it about the book that you liked tirebiter? I was secretly hoping for something like you experienced. |
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| tirebiter |
| Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 11:27 pm |
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What did I like about it? I got involved in the story of Phaedrus and his son, and identified with the struggles of the son when I was a young man and the struggles of the father when a middle-aged man. Phaedrus seeks rationality and finds madness, and his long polemic on philosophy is a description of his journey into a justifiable madness when he sees that the precise and clinical world of ideas cannot act as a template in his own life.
In newer editions, there is an afterword that triples the impact of the book. Pirsig's son Chris is the subject. I recommend you not read this until you have finished the book. |
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| pedersencr |
| Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2007 8:13 pm |
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Hi'ya bparton,
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| Marj |
| Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 4:49 pm |
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pedersencr wrote: Hi'ya bparton,
Glad to see you here.
Glad to see you too! *wink* |
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